| Blow-Up: And Other Stories Contributor(s): Cortázar, Julio (Author) |
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ISBN: 0394728815 ISBN-13: 9780394728810 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $16.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1985 Annotation: A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams...A man reading a mystery finds out to late that he is the murderer's victim... In the stories collected here-including 'Blow-Up, ' on which Antonioni based his film- Julio Cortazar explores the boundary where the everyday meets the mysterious, perhaps even the terrible. This is the most brilliant and celebrated book of short stories by a master of the form. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 84022792 |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 5.2" W x 7.99" (0.68 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams . . . A man reading a mystery finds out too late that he is the murderer's intended victim . . . Originally published in hardcover as End of the Game and Other Stories, the fifteen stories collected here--including "Blow-Up," which was the basis for Michelangelo Antonioni's film of the same name--shows Julio Cort zar's nimble capacity to explore the shadowy realm where the everyday meets the mysterious, perhaps even the terrible. |